> Yes. I was concerned about getting the backup running and finished this 
> morning. I did not note the error messages, but here is a section of the log 
> file:
>
> 26-Aug 00:10 bacula-sd: End of Volume "A0000004" at 224:7722 on device "VXA3" 
> (/dev/nst0). Write of 64512 bytes got -1.
> 26-Aug 00:11 bacula-sd: Re-read of last block succeeded.
> 26-Aug 00:11 bacula-sd: End of medium on Volume "A0000004" 
> Bytes=210,408,984,576 Blocks=3,261,547 at 26-Aug-2007 00:11.
> 26-Aug 00:13 bacula-sd: 3307 Issuing autochanger "unload slot 4, drive 0" 
> command.
> 26-Aug 00:14 bacula-sd: 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0" 
> command.
> 26-Aug 00:15 bacula-sd: 3305 Autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0", status is OK.
> 26-Aug 00:15 bacula-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
> 26-Aug 00:15 bacula-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 5.
>
This is all normal to this point. The autochanger believes that slot 5
is loaded in the tape drive.
>
> It repeats the 3301 and 3302 lines nine times, then shows the following:
>
> 26-Aug 00:15 bacula-sd: Please mount Volume "A0000005" on Storage Device 
> "VXA3" (/dev/nst0) for Job GIS_One.2007-08-25_17.35.00
>
I have had this happen 3 to 5 times with my changer this year.
>
> and repeats it five times, then does 3301 and 3302 again. Next is this:
>
> 27-Aug 07:34 bacula-sd: GIS_One.2007-08-25_17.35.00 Error: block.c:993 Read 
> error on fd=6 at file:blk 0:0 on device "VXA3" (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output 
> error.
This is weird as this happens when a tape is loaded and has never been
written to. Perhaps the label barcodes command never wrote a label to
the media. That could explain this.

> 27-Aug 07:34 bacula-sd: Please mount Volume "A0000005" on Storage Device 
> "VXA3" (/dev/nst0) for Job GIS_One.2007-08-25_17.35.00
>
> At 8:17 I finally got the tape loaded, as I described, and the backup 
> proceded.
>
> And that's all I know right now.
I hope not. Do you have any further log where the tape was successfully loaded?
>
Thanks for sending this. Although I do not have a solution it will
help in tracking this down.

John

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